Merge branch 'pr/1792'

[collectd.git] / src / daemon / common.c

diff --git a/src/daemon/common.c b/src/daemon/common.c
index d53f1ec0aa968f63a8130362047cf2b83458f05a..e2c872cc1ce819d562e5063f40e261c98cd43b19 100644 (file)
--- a/src/daemon/common.c
+++ b/src/daemon/common.c
@@ -1209,6 +1209,18 @@ int parse_values (char *buffer, value_list_t *vl, const data_set_t *ds)
        return (0);
 } /* int parse_values */
 
+int parse_value_file (char const *path, value_t *ret_value, int ds_type)
+{
+       char buffer[256];
+
+       if (read_file_contents (path, buffer, sizeof (buffer)) < 0)
+               return errno;
+
+       strstripnewline (buffer);
+
+       return parse_value (buffer, ret_value, ds_type);
+} /* int parse_value_file */
+
 #if !HAVE_GETPWNAM_R
 int getpwnam_r (const char *name, struct passwd *pwbuf, char *buf,
                size_t buflen, struct passwd **pwbufp)